Chunk #36 — Methods/Design — Participant Interview — Cognitive tests — Backward digit span

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The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936: a study to examine influences on cognitive ageing from age 11 to age 70 and beyond.

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This is a test of working memory from the WMS-IIIUK. Increasingly-long strings of digits are read at a given rate by the tester, and the participant repeats them backwards.